Новости за 07.12.2021

Disneyland on Wednesday will officially unveil its new Disney Genie service, a sort of digital concierge that replaces the popular Fastpass system that helped visitors avoid lengthy lines at many of the park’s big-ticket attractions. Disney Genie swill offer forecasts of wait times for various attractions at the theme park, much like the previous iteration […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the Season 1 finale of Fox’s The Big Leap. The Season 1 finale of Fox’s The Big Leap offered its share of drama and happy endings for many of its characters on Monday night while leaving plenty of wiggle room to continue should the network choose to renew […]

It was announced earlier today that Drake chose to withdraw his two Grammy nominations, and his nominations were removed from the official Grammy site. According to Variety, the rapper and his management came to the decision but his reason for withdrawing hasn’t been specified. Rolling Stone later confirmed that Drake was behind the move. The Canadian […]

Disney has hired Geoff Morrell, the EVP of Communications & Advocacy at oil and energy giant bp, to take over the duties of Zenia Mucha, Disney’s longtime Senior EVP and Chief Communications Officer. Mucha, along with fellow veteran Disney exec Alan Braverman, the Senior EVP and Corporate General Counsel, announced in July that they would […]

Researchers at media agencies GroupM and Magna Global are forecasting double-digit gains in ad spending in 2022 as the industry continues to bounce back from a Covid-ravaged 2020. GroupM’s annual forecast projects farther out than Magna’s, estimating that global ad spending across all platforms will top $1 trillion by 2025. In 2021, according to GroupM, […]

Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola has joined Freda — the Haitian Oscar entry marking the narrative feature debut of actor, singer and documentarian Gessica Généus — as an executive producer. He will spearhead an awards-season push for the pic, which is only the second Haitian film to be submitted to the Academy Awards’ International […]

Jussie Smollett insisted to a Chicago courtroom Monday that the violent attack against him in early 2019 “was no hoax.” On the stand in his own defense, the ex-Empire star called the assault by men hurling punches and homophobic and racial slurs and shouting “MAGA country” to be “something out of Looney Tune adventures.” Asked […]

UPDATE: The newest case of the Omicron variant identified in Los Angeles was found in a student who attends USC, the university announced today. The student was fully vaccinated, according to L.A. Public Health officials. The individual recently traveled to the East Coast, per LAPH. “Based on travel history, it is likely that the infection […]

The glitterati was out in full force in Jeddah on Monday night as the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival kicked off with the Middle Eastern premiere of Joe Wright’s musical romance Cyrano. Stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Saudi helmer Haifaa Al-Mansour, Anthony Mackie, Clive Owen, Hilary Swank, Vincent Cassel and Cannes Film Festival director […]

UPDATED, 3:30 PM: A Los Angeles man was charged today with murder and other counts stemming from the shooting of Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music executive Clarence Avant, during what has been described as a robbery at the couple’s Trousdale Estates home in Beverly Hills. Aariel Maynor, 29, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday […]

EXCLUSIVE: After working with big-name directors like Denis Villeneuve and Rian Johnson, Dave Bautista has found his next A-list director to work as the Dune actor is in negotiations to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s new top secret pic Knock at the Cabin. Shyamalan will write and direct, and also produce with Ashwin Rajan under the filmmaker’s Blinding […]

Oscar winner Jane Campion’s first feature film as director in 12 years, The Power of the Dog, had plenty to wag its tail about in its weekend debut on Netflix. Samba TV said Monday that the feature take of Thomas Savage’s 1967 Western novel drew in 1.2 million U.S. households. That’s a great start for what […]